
A 

SEARCHLIGHT ON GERMANY 

GERMANY'S BLUNDERS, CRIMES 
AND PUNISHMENT 



BY 

DR. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY 

Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society 



Preparation Pamphlet Series 



PUBLISHED BY 

American Defense Society 

303 FIFTH AVENUE 
NEW YORK CITY 

August 30, 1917 



I. The Blunders of Germany. 

BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY. 
Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society. 

Already in America there are signs of the inevitable ' ' mag- 
nanimity ' ' toward the great world criminal of the present 
world war, and of a movement for a whitewashed peace with 
" no annexations and no indemnities." There is danger that 
within six months Americans who do not know Germany will 
seek to snatch the boon of durable peace and human freedom 
from the Allied nations who have given their bravest and best 
men, literally by millions, and their wealth by billions, to pro- 
tect the rights of man. A German peace means a German 
triumph, and the certainty of another war in the near future. 
As an approach toward a settlement, it is now very necessary 
that every American should know Germany exactly as that 
bloody military dragon really is. As a means to that end, 
these three chapters have been written. 

The blunders, crimes and punishment of Germany are in- 
separably linked together. 

The blunders of Germany constitute a spectacle of very 
much more than passing interest. The questions they raise 
are by no means academic. The logic of them is as inexorable 
as Death. They are of vital interest to every freeman, and 
to every state and nation that sincerely undertakes to con- 
serve the rights of its people. To unhappy Austria, shoved 
into the war by Germany, they are of life or death interest. 
A correct view of Germany is now absolutely essential to the 
future freedom of man! 

Germany now resembles a rat in a pit, furious from count- 
less defeats, insane with baffled hate and rage, and wild with 
a fearful certainty of her Finish. All her fine plans, and 
twenty years of active preparation, have gone awry. Her 
vast naval and military preparations have brought her only 
death, poverty, ruin and hatred. Even her own allies now 

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thoroughly hate and detest her, and one and all would break 
away from her if they dared. 

All her long years of lying and spying and plotting have 
been revealed in their naked and hideous ugliness. She stands 
before the world as a foiled conquestador, a black-hearted 
murderer of defenseless women, children and' old men, and 
the wholesale ravisher of helpless women. The ' ' skull-cracker ' ' 
spiked club of Germany, and the deadly "murderer's mace" 
of Austria, now abundantly shown in Italy's war museum, 
are used for the murdering of wounded prisoners in the 
trenches and on the battlefields. 

And now Germany, like a mortally wounded wolf with the 
hounds at his throat, undertakes to propose terms of peace to 
the Allies! With a great show of large-heartedness, the 
Reichstag now talks very magnanimously of peace with "no 
annexations and no indemnities. ' ' Yes, indeed ! A peace on 
that basis would suit Germany well. Tricky and shifty to 
the last gasp, she seeks thus to catch the swell-headed "sol- 
diers and workmen" of Russia, the large-mouthed and blatant 
anarchists and radical socialists of America, and the traitor- 
pacifists of the world at large. But all honest men who are 
wide awake know full well that a peace of that nature would 
spell "victory" for Germany, and as certain as death and 
taxes another war with her later on ! 

The Entente Allies presently will fix the terms of peace, as 
they should be fixed, and Germany will accept them ; but first 
there will be another eighteen months of war. 

With new German-made peace talk streaming out of Berlin, 
it is now time to post the books for the past three years, and 
see how the German account stands. Nothing is more con- 
ducive to peace and prosperity than a true sense of propor- 
tion, and a correct point of view. In all times of danger it 
is best to know the worst. 

The debit side of Germany's account quickly resolves itself, 
first of all, into a catalogue of Germany's blunders, as the 
reasons for her crimes, and her present state of impotent rage. 
It is highly necessary that Americans should study this list, 
in order to judge the case fairly, and to be able to act intelli- 
gently when the times comes for the Allies to discuss the peace 
terms that Germany, Austria and Turkey must accept. 

It is the natural impulse of high-minded and humane peo- 
ple to be over-magnanimous to beaten enemies, to condone 
crime altogether too often, and to help the down-and-out 

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criminal to get back upon his feet. It is also a sadly common 
thing for a confirmed criminal to turn, cur-like, and bite the 
hand that helps him ; and many a criminal has murdered the 
generous man or woman who gave him a place to lay his head. 

There are criminals and criminals. Some deserve succor; 
others merit quick extermination. The confirmed criminal 
is in a class by himself. He is unfit to live ; but as the very 
smallest measure of self-protection, society should punish him 
for his crimes, and render him innocuous for the future. In 
other words, every confirmed criminal should either be killed 
or segregated, and made to exist in a little hell of his own, 
while decent people go their respective ways in peace and 
security. 

Eight million men, to whom America shortly will add at 
least two million more, bravely are risking their lives on the 
battlefields of Europe and Asia in an effort to put two crimi- 
nal nations, — Germany and Turkey, — into an exclusive hell 
of their own, and keep them there for the protection of 
civilization. 

In courts of law, it is customary to consider the motives of 
the prisoner at the bar, to search out his lines of thought, and 
study his methods. An annotated catalogue of the blunders 
of Germany will afford a clear insight into the present world 
situation, and the Teutonic frame of temper. It will also 
serve a good purpose when the time comes to arraign Ger- 
many and her allies for sentence. 

Before we open the door of the German den of mixed wolves 
and mad-dogs, let us read this marvelously true and prophetic 
pen picture of Kaiser William as it was published by Harold 
Frederic, in the New York Times, on April 2, 1888, twenty- 
nine years ago: 

"In the same way you look into the face of this young heir 
of the Hohenzollerns and remember the malignant tales which 
have been told of his inner nature by those who know him 
best. Apparently all the women — at least all the English 
women — who have had to do with the bringing up of Prince 
William hold him in horror and detestation. I have had nu- 
merous proofs of this, although I have never been able to 
fasten upon any specific reason for it. Their dislike for him 
is based on a general conception of his character. This view 
is that he is utterly cold, entirely selfish, wantonly cruel ; a 
young man without conscience or compassion, or any soften- 

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ing virtues whatever. That he has great abilities they all 
admit, but they stop there. Heart he has none, upon their 
reckoning. . . . 

"It seems very probable that some future Taine a century 
hence, perhaps, will write to show that William II of Prussia 
was a mysterious belated survival of the ante-mediaeval 
Goths and Vandals, — an Attila born a thousand and more 
years after his time." 

How many Americans are willing to trust themselves in the 
power of such a man ? 

1. THE GREAT BLUNDER OF GERMANY AND HER 
KAISER IN STARTING THE WAR. 

By the light of the official documents of Austria, Servia, 
Germany, Kussia, France and England, now open before us, 
it is an easy task to write the history of the beginning of the 
war in one paragraph. The most conclusive evidence of Ger- 
many's guilt is the official "German white book," dated 
"Foreign Office, August, 1914." It has convinced many a 
reader. 

On July 25, 1914, Servia humbled herself to the dust at the 
feet of Austria, to appease her for the murder of her crown 
prince by a crazy and criminal fool ; and little Servia con- 
ceded everything that giant Austria demanded, save a prac- 
tical surrender of her national honor. Austria had fully 
made up her mind to destroy Servia, anyhow; and in that 
connection Germany and her Kaiser decided the event would 
serve well for starting the great war of conquest for which the 
Germans had long and lovingly been preparing. The Czar 
begged the Kaiser not to consent to the slaughter of little 
Servia by the Austrian big bully. The Kaiser replied that 
Austria should have a free hand. The Czar appealed to 
England and to France, to help him avert a war; and both 
those nations did their level best to avert hostilities. No plea 
that could postpone the clash of armies, or promote a peaceful 
settlement was omitted. The last telegram of Czar Nicholas 
to Kaiser Wilhelm (August 1) was a pathetic appeal for 
delay, and a chance "to negotiate for the welfare of our two 
countries and the universal peace which is so dear to our 
hearts. With the aid of God," said the Czar, "it must be 
possible to our long-tried friendship to prevent the shedding 
of blood." To this the Kaiser icily replied: "Although I 

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asked for a reply by today noon [to his telegraphed ultima- 
tum], no telegram from my Ambassador has reached me," 
and "I therefore have been forced to mobilize my army." 
Germany's many statements that France began hostilities 
with her are one and all totally false. 

Now, here is a significant fact : 

On July 14, 1917, in a speech before the Austrian Reichsrath 
former Minister Praschek (a Czech) cried out: 

"Must we continue to sacrifice our interests for the expan- 
sion of Germany? Must we continue to submit to the Ger- 
man militarism that has drawn us into this war? ' ' 

Alas ! At last the truth is out, officially and openly ! We 
thought as much ! Many men have believed that Germany 
shoved Austria into the war, because Germany was all ready 
for her great offense, and the murder at Sarajevo served as 
a convenient excuse. If Germany had not backed up Austria, 
and Russia had forbidden Austria to attack Servia, there 
would have been no war! But Germany hailed that murder 
as her heaven-sent opportunity to begin. It was to her "Der 
Tag"! 

All the world knows that if the Kaiser had sent a nine-word 
telegram to Austria, at a cost of one mark, saying: "Do not 
begin war on Servia until further notice, ' ' Austria would not 
have dared go on ! But no ! William and his Germans re- 
fused to admonish Austria, or to delay hostilities by Ger- 
many. "We can not interfere with the plans of our Ally;" 
said William, "and we have mobilized." 

And thus did the German people and their Kaiser begin 
the war to which they had so long and so eagerly looked 
forward. 

2. GERMANY'S RUTHLESS DEVOTION TO SELF 

INTEREST. 

When Rapacity moves into the next house, it is time to lock 
your cellar door. Yoke up insatiable Appetite with colossal 
Egotism, and the inevitable runaway is only a question of 
time. 

While enjoying the benefits of an industrial prosperity and 
a world-wide commerce that had won the admiration of the 
world, the Germans complained about being denied their 
' ' place in the sun ' ' ; and they reached out after world 
supremacy. England and the United States were like twin 

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thorns in the side of the Kaiser and the German people at 
large. The pan-Germanists busily plotted against both those 
nations. 

Concerning England, a distinguished German-born citizen 
of New York, Mr. Otto H. Kahn, wrote to a relative in Ger- 
many (June 28, 1915) as follows: 

"England has not abused her power at sea, . . . any more 
than previous to the present war you have abused your power 
on land. Not only has she not stood in the way of your de- 
velopment, but on the contrary she has given you fair and 
free access to her markets, with unparalleled liberality." 

In fact, it was so "unparalleled" that by August, 1914, 
German commercial houses had crowded out of Singapore 
every British house save two ! Wherever the British flag 
went, prior to the war, along with it went the German trader. 

But, like the horseleech, Germany's cry was for "More"; 
and to get it "British sea power must be crushed!" 

Unmitigated rapacity, in men or in nations, ever has been 
and always will be a colossal blunder. 

3. THE BLUNDER OF WORLD-WIDE TREACHERY. 

While America was sound asleep in the lap of Peace, and 
England slumbered with only her sea eye open, Germany 
armed herself to the teeth, and planted throughout England, 
France, America, Belgium, Holland, Russia and India the 
most colossal spy-and-traitor system ever developed. She 
secretly armed her African colonies so that on receipt of the 
famous " Willie-is-ill" telegram, each one of her colonies in- 
stantly was ready to fight. 

In 1911, while crossing Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa, 
on a steamer, an American lady said to a German officer who 
sat beside her at the dinner table, "Have you and your com- 
rade been shooting?" "Not yet!" said the officer, signifi- 
cantly ; whereat his brother officer laughed heartily, as if at a 
good joke. Later it became known that the business of those 
two officers was the supplying of machine guns to German 
East Africa. And still later it was learned that those guns 
were shipped to Dar-es-Salaam in piano-boxes, marked 
"Pianos." No wonder Dar-es-Salaam was so ready to begin 
fighting on August 2, 1914 ! 

There are times when the blunderings of German "states- 
men" are so crude and raw that, when they harm no one, 

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they are comical. Even amid the horrors of war all America 
is laughing over the wholesale discomfiture and final undoing 
of Dr. Dumba, Papen, Boy-Ed (an anything-but-precocious 
Boy), and Bernstorff, by a restless American newspaper man 
with a taste for amateur detective work after amateur crooks. 

One would naturally suppose that men officially designated 
by their wise and honorable government to play dirty tricks 
on the people of a friendly nation would at least have as 
much intelligence as ordinary horses and dogs. But, no ; not 
so with that Austro-German galaxy of shining stars. 

One lonesome and harmless American newspaper man, John 
R. Rathom, of the Providence Journal, had the gall to plant 
an employee in a secretarial position at Excellency von 
Bernstorff 's elbow. Also, he put a bright American girl 
stenographer (with a red pencil) in the office of the Austrian 
Consul-General in New York. And not content with those 
outrages, he generously planted an office on each side of the 
German fake-passport factory in New York, instead of on one 
side only. 

And it was a Providence Journal man who with most 
criminal carelessness changed portfolios with the astute Dr. 
Albert of Austria, and staged a fight in a street car, — without 
extra charge,— while that horrible mistake was being made. 
And the saddest part of it all is that nearly forty-eight long 
hours elapsed ere the lynx-eyed Doctor noticed the substitu- 
tion, and made a fuss about it. 

Mr. Rathom 's most delightful story is of his girl stenog- 
rapher sitting demurely on a big box of incriminating papers, 
just prior to its shipment to Germany, sharing her frugal 
lunch with the shrewd Papen, and dreamily drawing two 
large red hearts on the box-cover, to which the sentimental 
Von thoughtfully and tenderly added a red transfixing arrow. 
This spooning led to the cheap and easy identification of the 
box in Merrie England. It reads like a foolishly impossible 
romance ; but the joke of it is, it is quite true. 

' ' Oh, mon ! but it was peetif ul ! ' ' 

With all their training in treachery, and education in plot- 
ting and lying and concealment, Dumba, Bernstorff, Papen, 
Boy-Ed and Albert were one and all the most stupid donkeys 
that ever came down the pike. Not one of them knew the first 
principles of the self-protection system that (temporarily) 
keeps expert liars and thieves and forgers from being caught. 
Just fancy keeping check-stubs, and receipts, and copies of 

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letters, in lawless proceedings ! Great is ' ' German thorough- 
ness ' ' — in being caught with the goods by an amateur sleuth, 
acting on his own brass hook. 

Mr. Rathom, who has enough to laugh over at the expense of 
Deutschland-uber-alles for the rest of his life, has not shown to 
the world more than one-twentieth of his mirth-provoking ma- 
terials. But how we do wish that by hook or by crook William 
the Witless might be told just how stupid his diplomatic rep- 
resentatives really were, and how much their stupidity helped 
the Allies. 

It has been said that liars need long memories ; and it can 
safely be added that they also need as much intelligence as pet 
monkeys. A rogue who pays his fellow rogues by checks on 
his bank account is utterly hopeless. The only proper place 
for him is the cooling room of an asylum for idiots. 

The playgrounds of the great American schoolboy have pro- 
duced many a nugget of worldly wisdom. One of them is the 
unanswerable admonition that "Cheating never thrives." 

All mankind hates treachery under the cloak of friendship. 
After Boy-Ed, Papen, Bernstorff, Dumba and Albert, what 
will we think of the Germans and Austrians who are sent to us 
after the war, to represent their governments? How can 
Americans regard them as anything else than spies and traitors 
of the same brands as their predecessors, who will lie to us, and 
knife us in the back as often and as deeply as the interests of 
their governments may seem to require? All such "diplo- 
mats" deserve to be hanged by the governments to which they 
are sent. Fancy the next "His Excellency, the German Am- 
bassador" being presented to the President of the United 
States a few months from now, shaking hands, and proffering 
' ' friendship ' ' ! 

4. THE BLUNDER IN GERMANY'S CONTEMPT OF 

ENGLAND. 

Among fighters, only the fool will underrate his adversary. 
Per contra, it is only the fool who overestimates his own 
strength. The Germans of Germany made both those blunders. 

The German navy is a strange mixture, of brave men and 
cowards, of gallant gentlemen and murderous curs ; and all of 
them are directed by asses. No sooner is a gallant feat of sea- 
manship recorded and acclaimed than it is completely be- 
clouded and besmirched by some act of dirty cruelty which 

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turns admiration into loathing'. The history of German naval 
doings in this war is like a checkerboard of black and white 
squares ; but the few remaining white squares are rapidly 
turning black. 

In commerce-raiding the Germans are great ; and the U-boat 
is a wonder. The more humble the prey, the better for the 
boat. But the U-boat is mighty careful not to tackle a de- 
stroyer, and take a sporting chance ; and when he finds that his 
tramp-freighter prey is armed, he feels that he is indeed in hard 
luck. His favorite warfare is fighting, with torpedoes and guns 
galore, unarmed fishing smacks and rusty tramp steamers. His 
favorite order is : " Fire when you see them spit on the bait ! ' ' 

And now he has taken on the habit of shelling life-boats 
loaded to the gunwales with helpless crews, and sending them 
all to the bottom. Sometimes the gallant U-boat captain comes 
close up, and he and his crew come out and jeer at drowning 
men and women as they struggle in icy waters. 

The German High Seas Fleet is grand — at running for cover 
whenever the British get a chance at it. The manner in which 
the Bluecher was left to its fate while all the other gallant 
battleships of the German fleet madly scuttled for the Kiel 
Canal, had its comical side ; but it was truly typical of the 
Kaiser's navy. It is said that after that event Tirpitz provided 
his naval code with a new signal, reading, "Every man for 
himself, and England take the hindmost. ' ' 

Germany's bid for the supremacy of the seas was far too 
low ; and it has cost her heavily. 

5. BLUNDERING ESTIMATES OF NATIONAL IDEALS. 

It is natural for a wolf to take a wolf 's point of view ; but 
often it is expensive to the wolf. 

Germany's big men who have been masquerading as "states- 
men" have been proven by the logic of events to be the most 
colossal blunderers the world has ever seen ; and of them Kaiser 
Wilhelm is the chief. 

They had it figured out ( 1 ) that Italy would necessarily cast 
in her lot with the nation who had robbed her of her Adriatic 
provinces, and with the other nation who by crafty methods 
had grasped her commerce, railroads and banks by the throat 
with a German grip not pleasant to feel. 

(2). — They believed that Belgium would, for the sake of 
"peace," submit to being overrun and converted into a Ger- 

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man camp, with the ultimately certain seizure and retention of 
the port of Antwerp. 

(3). — They believed that because of having no army worth 
mentioning, and for Irish and Indian reasons, England could 
be bribed into a state of degrading passivity while Germany 
completely destroyed her ally, France. And Chancellor Holl- 
weg nearly wept when he could not convince Sir Edward 
Goschen that a pledge of neutrality was a thing to be ignored 
at will, and that a solemn international treaty was only •' ' a 
scrap of paper." In failing to understand that England pos- 
sesses a sense of national honor to which Germany was a total 
stranger, which bore no taint of either commercialism or 
cowardice, and which Britons throughout the world will main- 
tain with all their lives, regardless of cost, the Chancellor and 
Jagow made a strictly German blunder, which no child with a 
taste for history ever should have made. On this point the 
stupidity of the Kaiser and his cabinet looms up like the 
Pyramid of Cheops. They judged the English by themselves. 

6. BLUNDERING WITH AMERICA. 

Germany's chief blunder regarding America was due to her 
contempt for this sleepy, easy-going, unarmed, peace-loving 
nation of Quixotic chivalry toward small nations, or big ones 
that are weak, and her utterly grotesque worship of riches and 
luxury. On no other hypothesis is it possible to account for 
the endless series of insults, injuries and treacheries that were 
handed out to the United States from the early sinking of the 
Robert Dollar down to the final declaration of ruthless sub- 
marine war on American commerce and American lives. 

Never in all the history of nations did any strong nation ever 
endure without war one one-hundredth part of the causes for 
war that were heaped upon us by Germany between August 1, 
1914, and the final severance of relations. For the sake of 
"peace" with a mad-dog military despotism, we endured in- 
sults, injuries and murders until the whole world looked at us 
in stupefied amazement. Why, in the first year of our Civil 
War, we came to the very verge of war with England because 
we halted at sea the British steamer Trent, and took from it, as 
ordinary prisoners of war, the two Confederate commissioners. 
Mason and Slidell. But Germany sank scores of American 
ships, and drowned hundreds of Americans, — and still we went 
on seeking to avoid the clash of arms. 

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But, always "Beware the fury of a patient man!" 
Now that we have put our hand to the plough, the furrow 
will be turned to the uttermost finish, whether it takes one year 
or ten years. We will not leave a living Pfafner, — a great, 
stinking German military dragon, — as a heritage for our 
children. 

7. THE BLUNDER OF "FRIGHTFULNESS." 

There are some blunders that dogs and horses, and even sen- 
sible wild animals, do not commit. Of all the stupidities of 
the German people, the crowning glory of their blundering is 
their idea that German savagery and " f rightfulness " could 
so appal their enemies that they would be paralyzed by the 
shock of atrocities, and purchase peace at any price. It is diffi- 
cult to believe that such fantastic theories as these originated 
anywhere outside of a madhouse. No words at our command 
can so well describe this situation as do the words of a once- 
German, of New York and of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, Mr. 
Otto H. Kahn. They were written on June 28, 1915, to a rela- 
tive in Germany, and published in the N. Y. Times of July 
4, 1917. 

"The theory of ' f rightfulness ' in the conduct of warfare 
which Germany now preaches and practices is no new discov- 
ery. On the contrary, it is a very ancient one, — so old, in fact, 
that long ago it came to be discarded and superseded in Euro- 
pean warfare, and passed into the limbo of forgotten things. 
There, until resurrected by your countrymen, it lay for genera- 
tions, along with much else that the human race had overcome 
and left behind in the progress of culture and humanity, — a 
progress achieved by strenuous toil, sacrifices and suffering in 
the course of many centuries. 

"And what have you gained from your 'f rightfulness'? 
Your victories have been due to quite other qualities. By 
your 'f rightfulness' you have steeled your enemies to the 
utmost limit of sacrifice; you have embittered neutral opin- 
ion; you have disappointed and grieved your friends, and 
sown dragon 's teeth, the offspring of which will arise against 
you many years, even after the conclusion of peace. ' ' 

These are indeed words of wisdom and truth. Even after 
the conclusion of peace, the exponents of " f rightfulness " and 
the knights of the "skull-cracker" will be accorded a hell of 
their own. 

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8. THE BLUNDER AS TO AMERICANS OF GER- 
MAN DESCENT. 

One of Germany's colossal blunders was her estimate of the 
sentiments and principles of German-born people who have 
made their homes in America, and the American sons and 
daughters of German-born parents. German statesmen whose 
criminal wishes shaped their thoughts sincerely believed that 
the admiration and love of the Kaiser's despotism, including 
even the military iron heel, was so great that the influence of 
American liberty, open-hearted hospitality and vast opportu- 
nity would count for naught when the Kaiser cracked his whip. 

The Simple Simons of Wilhelmstrasse actually believed that 
in any struggle with America, all Americans of German an- 
cestry necessarily would be traitors to their own hearthstones, 
and would rise en masse, fully-armed, cobra-like, to strike the 
government of the United States. Being themselves ruthlessly 
devoted to the idea of might and conquest, and the merciless 
subjugation of small and weak nations, they judged their kin- 
dred in America by their own rotten standards. They fool- 
ishly assumed that a German forty years in America would 
willingly become a black-hearted traitor to the land that for 
years had sheltered him, and made much of him, — simply 
because the ruthless builders of modern Germany had endeav- 
ored to keep a grip on him, and had willed that he should obey 
their orders. 

But the people of America made no mistakes of that kind. 
They recognized that so long as the United States was not at 
war with Germany, the sympathy of all Americans of German 
descent would be against the Allies. That was as natural as it 
is for water to run down hill. But when war with Germany 
was declared, after a multitude of insults and injuries and too 
many efforts at avoidance, the native American felt no serious 
misgiving regarding the great body of Americans of German 
ancestry. All that they did fear was the crazy possibilities of 
individual hot-heads ; and it was pointed out to German- Ameri- 
cans that the insane and treasonable acts of such irresponsibles 
might easily involve great masses of perfectly innocent people. 
The Americans of German descent sternly forbade all such 
folly by their people, and it will be a pleasure for the historians 
of these times to record the fact that the German-born Ameri- 
cans have, as a mass, elected to be Americans first, and the 
others have wisely feared to be openly hostile to the United 
States. 

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Except the Anarchists, Socialists and I. W. W's, American 
ideals have made lasting impressions upon many of our people 
whose veins contain foreign blood, though not upon all. Young 
Ernest and Heinrich are in the National Guard, and lads Au- 
gust and Herman are in the Boy Scouts, busy saluting the 
flag ; and all are quite ready to fight for the only home country 
that they know. They are not in the ranks of the alien mal- 
contents who are organized to fight all American efforts at 
national defense. But we will deal with that element. 

The brutal German government, and the odious Junkers, 
now frantically lying to the people of Germany and ruthlessly 
concealing the truth from them, have few allies in the United 
States save the spies and traitors planted here for spy pur- 
poses. There will be no ' ' uprising of Germans ' ' here. The ex- 
tinguishment by the Providence Journal of the reptilian Bern- 
storff, the chuckleheaded Boy-Ed, the blundering Papen, and 
Dumba the easy mark, effectually ended the treasonable plots 
that aided very materially in opening the chasm between the 
United States and Germany, and driving the United States 
whole-heartedly into the war. Dumba has been decorated for 
his part in all this, and we hope his fellow plotters will be 
equally appreciated. 

But there are some capital blunders that Germany never 
makes. Her people are an absolute unit, in body, spirit and 
resources, in backing up the leaders of the nation in the hour 
of strife and danger. She does not make the mistake of toler- 
ating traitors and assassins at home. If her soldiers mutinied 
on the firing line, and refused to fight the enemy, as some rot- 
ten-hearted Russian soldiers recently have done most disas- 
trously, Germany would not make the mistake of letting one 
of them live to tell it. In solidarity, unity of purpose and de- 
votion to the nation's policy, the German people are a shining 
example to America. They are more devoted to a bad cause 
than our slackers and traitors are to a good one. It is high 
time for us to teach our traitors some severe lessons; and I 
warn them, one and all : Beware ! 

And now what about Germany 's crimes ? In the next chap- 
ter, let us see. 



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II. The Crimes of Germany. 

In the affairs of the individual and the state, we hear a lot 
about "crime" and "criminals"; but it is an idiotic fact that 
the greatest of all crimes, those committed by nations on 
a vast scale, rarely are spoken of as crimes, and easily are 
condoned after the fighting stops. The world calls them 
either "wars" or "atrocities"; and the men who instigate 
them never are spoken of as criminals, and never are pun- 
ished as such. Is it not curious? 

Still less is the author of an inexcusable war, or a series of 
brutal atrocities, hanged, or shot, or even permanently im- 
prisoned for his crimes. What fools these mortals be ! 

In our civilization, a wife who ends long years of torture 
by killing a brutal husband, always is tried, sentenced, and 
either imprisoned for life, or executed. This asinine world 
is most virtuous in the punishment of weak individuals ; but 
we notice that it rarely tackles the job of meting out real 
justice to the greatest of all criminals. After this war is 
over, will any criminal, either at Berlin or Constantinople, be 
hanged or shot for the deliberate slaughter of 1,500,000 help- 
less Armenians, or for any of the hideous crimes committed 
in this war? Not on your life. Mushy-hearted individuals 
will advise that they be treated "magnanimously," and will 
urge that we "become friends." 

The world has grown hardened to the habit of lumping the 
crimes and atrocities of organized conflicts together under a 
short and easy word. "War" is made to cover and gloss over 
millions of the bloody and malicious crimes of millions of men 
who ought to be punished according to their deserts. I am 
thinking of the Kaiser, Stenger, Tirpitz and Hindenberg, and 
the Young Turks en masse. 

The Hague conventions did their utmost to reform the 
world's war practices, establish an international code of war 
ethics, and thereby reduce the horrors of armed conflict. But 
with what results ? 

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Closely following those well-meant and humane efforts, two 
nations, Germany and Turkey, have given the world a con- 
tinuous performance of wholesale murder, rape, burnings, 
drownings and starvation such as the world never before saw, 
even in the bloodiest days of barbarism. The Turkish crimes 
in Armenia must be computed in millions, and the wanton 
murder of a million Armenians is directly chargeable to the 
rulers of Germany, who deliberately permitted it to be done. 

And even now, many good people who refuse to concern 
themselves with the woes of men and women who are far 
away, will decry all attempts to punish the Germans and 
Turks for their crimes. They will talk about "magnanimity 
in peace terms," and a quick return to ante-bellum friend- 
ships. Think of a treaty of friendship with ravishers, and 
with the murderers of women and children and prisoners ! 

All sensible men know that the proper punishment of crimi- 
nals is necessary for the protection of society from wolves and 
dragons, and for the general welfare of mankind. Unpun- 
ished crime always encourages and produces more crime. 
The world must not mistake softness of head for soundness of 
heart. 

It is indeed high time that criminal nations should be pun- 
ished for their crimes. Are any nations before the bar of the 
Court of Nations charged with deliberate and premeditated 
crimes against helpless humanity? 

Yes; two. Germany and Turkey are so accused; and no 
power on earth can stop the trial ! Austria comes next. 

Let us call first the case of Germany. 

In opening the worst of these two cases, we distinctly leave 
out of our specifications all those acts which may be put down 
as chargeable to the ordinary and inevitable horrors of war. 
At the same time we must remember that even the most brutal 
prize ring has its rules and its ethics, which are rigidly en- 
forced. Even a fighter whose face is being beaten to a pulp 
may not bite, kick, gouge, or strike below the belt; no, not 
even when defeat and ruin stare him in the face. The fight- 
ing must be "fair," or the decision is at once given to the 
recipient of the "foul" act. 

Until Germany invaded Belgium, and Turkey went to work 
to exterminate the Armenians, the world supposed that the 
Christian nations had reformed, that all civilized nations rec- 
ognized the latest international code of ethics in war, and 
would live up to it. It was then against the rules of civilized 

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warfare to shoot, stab, burn or beat to death the civilian popu- 
lations of captured territory, to starve prisoners, to kill pris- 
oners and wounded men, to use expanding bullets, to rape 
women, to force women to become soldier's prostitutes, to 
poison wells, to use poison in any form, to destroy maliciously 
works of art, science and literature ; to sink merchant ships 
at sea without assuring the safety of passengers and crew, and 
to bombard cities from the air for the slaughter of their help- 
less civilian inhabitants. 

According to a great mass of official records, all of those 
barbarous, cruel, inhumane and wild-animal acts have been 
done by Germany, on well-nigh countless occasions. The evi- 
dence is thoroughly conclusive. The German soldiers and 
sailors, both officers and men, are the most cruel and brutal 
criminals of all the world. In Servia the Austrian record is 
almost as rotten. 

In 1898, Count Goetzen said, regarding the treacherous de- 
signs of Germany on France, England and America : " If you 
do speak of this, no one will believe you, and everyone will 
laugh at you ! ' ' 

Today, the American people as a mass do not know more 
than one one-hundredth part of the crimes of Germany dur- 
ing the past three years. The reason is that it is impossible 
to place before them the great mass of publications and docu- 
ments, such as that which now lies before me, that is necessary 
to convey full knowledge of this ghastly subject. Without 
this evidence, or at least a lengthy digest of it, the utter de- 
pravity of the German Germans is, to a clean and humane 
American, absolutely incomprehensible. It takes strong nerves 
to go through these thousands of pages of printed documents, 
and scores of ghastly pictures, without becoming thoroughly 
shaken. 

It is not a pleasing task to set forth the details of revolting 
crimes, but it now has become very necessary that all Ameri- 
cans, of South America as well as North, should be shown the 
true character of the soldiers and civilians of Germany, and 
the men in high places who have ordered and fostered the 
high crimes of the past three years. This is no time to side- 
step the truth regarding the deadliest foes of human liberty 
and the rights of man. 

By way of illustration. Consider the character of the Ger- 
man crown prince, — the hero(?) of Verdun. When in Za- 
bern the highborn German Captain Forstner beat a lame 

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Alsatian shoemaker with his sword, for being "short" in love 
for his German masters. When a great outcry was raised out- 
side of Germany, the precious crown-princeling telegraphed the 
brave and gallant Forstner, "Fester d'rauf!" which means 
"Hit him again!" Forstner was promoted, for gallantry on 
the field, of course. (New York Times, July 15.) 

In making up this all too brief exposition, I shall set 
down neither facts nor conclusions save those that are sup- 
ported by an abundance of evidence such as might well be 
offered in any court of law. The most damaging evidences of 
German crimes and atrocities are those that have been col- 
lected from German sources! 

The "peace resolutions" introduced in the German Reich- 
stag say : 

"Germany took up arms in defense of its liberty and inde- 
pendence, and for the integrity of its territories. ' ' 

All the world now knows, that both those statements are 
brazen lies, and that the people of Germany started the war 
as a war of conquest, and nothing else. But the lying leaders 
of Germany, including the 70 men of science who signed and 
sent out their now famous manifesto late in 1914, have for 
three long years been injecting that falsehood into the igno- 
rant masses of Germany, to make them feel like fighting and 
going hungry. 

No. Germany's whining plea that she is "fighting for her 
very existence" is no excuse whatever for her diabolical 
crimes. No one is, or has been, seeking to "destroy" Ger- 
many, or anything German, save only her domineering, dan- 
gerous and thoroughly accursed military power. Even in 
the prize ring all such excuses as that are ruled out; and the 
fear of being beaten in a fight is no excuse for crime, nor 
even for brutality in method. 

One curious psychological fact is to be noted at the very 
outset. It is this : 

The moment the average German dons a military uniform, 
and becomes a soldier, with deadly weapons in his hands, he is 
at once transformed as if by magic into a cruel monster. 
Frequently he becomes a savage and bloodthirsty dragon ; and 
it would be a gross libel on the lower animals to call him a 
beast. He becomes a stranger to the feelings of the home- 
loving husband, father, son or churchman. In the name of 
"Germany," and "war," he is ready to commit any atrocity 

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and write it down, exultingly, in his diary. Ah ! those soldier 
diaries! There is where German efficiency unwittingly pro- 
vided instruments for the punishment of German crimes. 

But the German in uniform is not the only agent of hate 
and brutality. ' ' The people of Germany ' ' are only one short 
step behind him. Let every person who doubts this send five 
cents to the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, for its 
issue of July 14, 1917, and on page 16 read "Englander 
Schwein" ("English Swine") the diary of Corporal Edwards, 
of Canada's top regiment, the Princess Patricia's C.L.I. , who 
was captured by the Germans. Read it, if you have in your 
heart even one soft spot for ' ' the people of Germany. ' ' 

It is a story of revolting filth inflicted upon refined gentle- 
men, of three days utterly needless hunger torture inflicted 
on half-starved men taken out of their cars three times a day, 
lined up and compelled to watch German soldiers stuffed 
with food by German women, with "Nein!" "Nein!" to them 
when they begged for food. It is a story of horribly neglected 
wounds, arms rotting off, slow starvation in the prison camp 
on food consisting of 200 gallons of water to one small bag 
of potatoes, and so forth. 

Of the murders and mutilations in the trenches there is 
not time to speak. But read this account of the treatment 
the Canadians received along the railway from the women 
of Germany, — even "gentlewomen": 

"The mob surged around us, heaping on us insults and 
blows; particularly the women. They spat on us, with hate 
in their eyes. We had to take that, or the bayonet. These 
were the acts not only of the rabble, but also of the people of 
good appearance and address. One very well-dressed woman 
came rushing up. Under other circumstances I would have 
judged her to be a gentlewoman. She was screaming invec- 
tives at us as she forced her way through the crowd. 
' Schwein ! ' she screamed, and struck at the man next me. 
Then, drawing deep from the very bottom of her lungs, she 
spat the mass full in his face. ' ' 

In essaying to give in one* article even an outline sketch of 
the crimes of Germany, one is perplexed by the many different 
kinds of atrocities, and the great mass of instances and proofs 
bearing upon them. Out of it all there thrusts up the ugly 
fact, like a spear from a pile of corpses, that many of these 

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crimes were committed intentionally, with malice afore- 
thought, and often were deliberately ordered by German 
officers, both high and low. For example : 

General Stenger issued a printed order to kill all the 
wounded ; 

Bissing was the refined torturer of all Belgium, in many 
orders ; 

Manteuffel was the chief murderer at Louvain; 

Bulow and Schonmann were the wild beasts of Ardenne ; 

And it was Bayer at Dinant, Bohn at Sommerfeld and 
Termonde; Nieher at Wavre; Wittenstein at Clermont-en- 
Argonne, and so on until you are tired. 

1. THE MURDER OF CIVILIANS. 

This flourishing German industry began at Louvain, at the 
very outbreak of the war, and has continued right down to 
the present. It is astounding to see how quickly murders 
began, with the most revolting brutality, immediately after 
the Germans entered Belgium ! Sometimes the excuse was 
made that "Mann hat geschossen", — that "civilians have 
fired ' ' ; — and then the indiscriminate slaughter began. 

The thick volume of "Evidence" taken by the Bryce Com- 
mission on the German Atrocities is crowded full of testi- 
mony ; and so are many subsequent publications of the British 
and French governments. The stories written down in their 
diaries by German soldiers are both terrible and amazing. 
In an uncountable number of villages old men, old women, 
boys, girls, women and children were shot by dozens and by 
hundreds; and hundreds were stabbed to death by bayonets. 

There are sickening accounts, from eye-witness testimony, 
of German soldiers bayoneting children and girls, but the 
most spectacular crime of that kind was committed at 
Malaines (d4, Bryce Evidence), when a German soldier walk- 
ing down the main street, singing, "drove his bayonet with 
both hands through a living child's stomach, lifting the child 
into the air on his bayonet, and carrying it away on his 
bayonet, he and his comrades still singing." (Page 82.) 

In the village of Sempst, an Uhlan cut off the breast of a 
woman with his sword ; and a little boy was burned to death 
in an attic. (K. 33.) At Aerschot a girl of 18 or 20 was 
found "absolutely naked, with her abdomen cut open", and 
"her body covered with bruises, showing that she had made 
a struggle." Jack the Ripper in a spiked helmet! 

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And again at Aerschot (C. 38) did the German Jack get 
in his work on another girl of 18. She was found (dead) 
with "her arms nailed to the door in extended fashion, . . . 
her left breast cut away, and numerous bayonet wounds in 
the chest, some piercing through to the back." (Told by a 
Belgian soldier, who helped to recapture the place.) 

A British subject saw on September 15, 1914, in the 
Wetteren Hospital, a girl of 11 from Alost with 17 bayonet 
thrusts in her back, "practically flayed, and at the point of 
death." (F. 13.) "Out of the 1300 inhabitants of Noumeny, 
at least 150 were killed (murdered) by the Germans." 
(French Police Report, Aug. 24, 1914.) 

This list could be extended by hundreds of other cases ; and 
a long chapter could be filled with such instances as the above. 
Geographically they reach all the way from Louvain to the 
beginning of the great German defeat before Paris. 

In order to form estimates of what the quiet little country 
villages of New England might expect if the armed wolves 
and mad dogs of Germany ever gained a foothold here, let 
us consider a few figures compiled from official reports and 
published by the Illustrated London News. They relate solely 
to the murder of unarmed, inoffensive civilians — old men, 
women, girls, boys and children. 

In Brabant 897 persons shot or bayoneted. 

In Luxembourg Province, over 1,000 " " " " 



At Arlon 




119 " " " " 


Dinant Arrondissement (Fr.) 


606 killed, from 3 weeks to 




i 


77 years old. 


Neufchatel 




18 shot. 


Etalle 




30 " 


Hondemont 




11 " 


Tintiguy 




157 " 


Izele 




10 " 


Rossignol 




106 " 


Bertrix 




21 " 


Ethe 


about 


300 shot; "530 in all miss 


Latour 


only 


ing. " 
17 men left. 


Maissin 
Aloy 




12 shot, 1 a young girl. 
52 men and women shot. 


Claireuse 




2 men hanged. 



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— and so on, indefinitely. On the most trivial pretexts, or none 
at all, the Germans slaughtered unresisting non-combatants 
who were in their power. Out of a lot of 40 German soldier 
diaries, only 6 express disapproval or disgust, and at least 30 
diaries treat murders either exultingly or as being merely a 
part of the day's work. 

The slaughtered innocents of Belgium, France, Servia and 
Poland would, in each of those countries, undoubtedly run far 
up into thousands if it were possible to count them. 

Thanks to the diligence of the British and French govern- 
ments in collecting evidence now while evidence is procurable, 
there is already enough printed testimony to damn Germany 
in the eyes of the world for at least two centuries. 

2. KILLING OF PRISONERS AND WOUNDED MEN 
BY GERMANS. 

The crimes of Germany under this head have been literally 
innumerable. Judging by German, French, Belgian and Eng- 
lish evidence, it seems as if German soldiers have slaughtered 
probably 100,000 defenseless prisoners and wounded men. 
Prof. J. H. Morgan states that von der Goltz, the evil genius of 
Turkey, ' ' predicted some years ago that the next war would be 
one of inconceivable violence ' ' ; and he declares that ' ' the Ger- 
mans have no sense of honor in the field. ' ' He was hideously 
correct. 

German prisoner murder began before Antwerp on October 
6, 1914, when the Captain of the 85th Regt. IXth Corps, 4th 
Company, said to his men : " I do not want to see any English- 
men prisoners in the hands of this company ! " To which the 
company cried, "Bravo!" And Richard Gerhold, 71st Regi- 
ment Reserve, 4th Army Corps (killed in September, 1914), 
wrote in his precious diary thus: "Great atrocities are of 
course committed upon Englishmen and Belgians. Every 
one of them is now knocked on the head without mercy. ' ' 

The famous Stenger order of August 26, 1914, brings us to 
a capital case. A German Brigadier-General, Stenger by 
name, issued this written order to his brigade : 

"To date from this day, no prisoners will be made any 
longer. All the prisoners will be executed. The wounded, 
whether armed or defenseless, will be executed. Prisoners, 
even in large and compact formations, will be executed. 
Not a man will be left alive behind us. ' ' 

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The instances of the murder of helpless prisoners by Ger- 
mans are far too numerous to be cited in detail. Beyond rea- 
sonable doubt, a hundred thousand soldiers were murdered on 
the Stenger basis. 

And after the war is over, if we resume friendly "relations" 
with Germany, we may see Stenger in Washington as Military 
Attache to his Excellency the German Ambassador, shaking 
hands with the President of the United States. 

3. THE BOMBING OF CIVILIANS IN LONDON AND 
ELSEWHERE. 

The Kaiser and Zeppelin, and the German people, have spent 
many millions of dollars in deliberate attempts to slaughter 
the unarmed inhabitants of London, and strafe England. All 
the German talk about attacking "the fortress of London" is 
beneath contempt. Rarely indeed has a soldier been injured 
in London, or any other English city, by a Zeppelin or an air- 
plane bomb. It has been the helpless women, school-children 
and other non-combatants who have been blown to pieces. 

These murders of civilian men, women and children have 
served only to send furious Englishmen rushing to the trenches 
in droves, for vengeance ! Had the square-heads deliberately 
attempted to stimulate British enlistments, the dropping of 
bombs on London would have been the ideal plan. At last 
the British public demand reprisals, on the basis of an eye for 
an eye and a tooth for a tooth ; which would be absolutely right. 

But thus far the statesmen of England firmly say : 

"No! We will not descend to the low level of the Huns of 
Germany. ' ' 

Nevertheless, Zeppelin died of a broken heart. From a mili- 
tary point of view his campaign has proven a complete fiasco, — 
just as Americans long ago predicted that it would, and his 
"f rightfulness" gas bags are now on the scrap-heap. 

4. TIRPITZ AND THE SUBMARINE MURDERS. 

For a submarine to sink a war vessel with all on board is 
merely war, no more and no less. * No one whines about atroci- 
ties of that sort. All the world does object, however, and very 
strongly, too, to the sinking of unarmed passenger steamers, 
hospital ships, and Belgian relief ships. All such acts of 
murder as these are the acts of monsters, not of men. Of 

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course we know that Germany sees her doom, and her people 
are wild over the certainty of defeat. But even a 90 per cent, 
defeated prize-fighter must not deliver a foul blow. 

The submarine murders are so well known to Americans as 
to require no comment; but a few murder statistics will be 
worth while, lest we forget. 



March 28, 1915. 


Steamer Faldba 


111 lost 


May 7, " 


' ' Lusitania 


1,198 " 


June 28, " 


Armenian 


30 " 


Aug. 19, " 


Arabic 


30 " 


Nov. 7, " 


Ancona 


208 " 


Dec. 30, " 


' ' Persia 


385 " 


March 24, 1916. 


" S^lssex (Channel boat) 


52 " 



Hospital Ships Maliciously Destroyed by the German 

"Navy." 

Portugal. March 17, 1916 45 Red Cross nurses lost. 

40 of the crew. 

Britannic. Nov., 1915 about 50 lost. 

Asturias. March 20, 1915 43 lost. 

Gloucester Castle. March 30, 1915 . all wounded saved. 

Donegal 41 lost. 

Lanfranc. (152 wounded Germans 

saved by the British Navy!) 19 British wounded lost. 

15 German wounded lost. 



On a very few occasions, a few German submarine captains 
have acted humanely, and some even gallantly; but all these 
acts have been besmirched by the acts of cowardly and brutal 
men who have deliberately fired upon hospital ships and open 
life-boats loaded with men attempting to save themselves 
from drowning. In one celebrated instance a U-boat captain 
and his crew came out upon their deck, and at close range 
jeered at drowning men and women who were struggling in 
icy water. 

And here is the latest feat of the brave and gallant German 
' ' navy ' ' : 

On July 31, 1917, 200 miles from land a German submarine 
engaged in combat and sank the unarmed British freighter, 
Belgian Prince. They assembled the entire crew of 40 men 
on the submarine's deck, stripped from them their life-belts, 

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and smashed all their life-boats, with axes. Then the brave 
Germans went below, closed their hatches, ran on the surface 
for two miles, then suddenly submerged. Thirty-eight were 
drowned, but two lived to be picked up and tell the story. 
A new trick. Look for frequent repetitions. 

5. POISON GAS, LIQUID FIRE AND POISONED 

WELLS. 

Early in the war the much-vaunted German "men of sci- 
ence" invented poisonous gases (chiefly of chlorine), liquid 
fire apparatus, and other forms of deviltry forbidden in civi- 
lized warfare. The "flammenwerfer" is now a favorite Ger- 
man institution ; but occasionally it gets into trouble by being 
exploded by shell fire, in the hands of the men using it. One 
result of poison gas and liquid fire is the everlasting odium 
that it has fastened upon the German army. The British 
soldiers say that ' ' the Germans are dirty fighters ' ' ; and the 
name will stick forever. 

In German South-West Africa, when the Boer General, 
Louis Botha, captured Swakopmund he found that all six of 
the wells had been poisoned with arsenical cattle-dip. Bags 
of the poison hung in the wells; and the crime was acknowl- 
edged and defended in writing by Lieut. -Col. Franke, com- 
mander of the German forces. Previous to that time, the new 
German governor had murdered in cold blood 208 of the lead- 
ing natives of the capital town, to teach the surviving Hereros 
the advantages of life under the black vulture of Germany. 

6. BACTERIA OF GLANDERS AND ANTHRAX 

SENT INTO RUMANIA. 

"The world owes much to German science." This remark 
is not original. We have heard it about 147,500 times; but 
the world has not heard quite so often how the worthy "scien- 
tists" of Germany sent large collections of living and active 
bacilli of glanders for horses, and anthrax for cattle, into 
Rumania, under the German diplomatic seal, just before war 
was declared by Rumania ! The precious cultures were found 
buried in the garden of the German consulate ; and in their 
usual blundering way, the dunderheads did not know enough 
to destroy the evidence of their newest species of crime. All 
this has been set forth by the Rumanian government in a neat 

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little pamphlet, very useful to students of criminology and 
degeneracy. 

7. THE MURDER OF EDITH CAVELL. 

Not in two hundred years will the world forget or forgive 
this dastardly crime. If Bissing is not now in hell for it, 
then there is no such place. The cities of civilized countries 
should erect Cavell monuments, and name streets Cavell, lest 
we forget. Only Germans or Turks could have done a deed 
so unnecessary, so brutal and unchivalrous. But it seems 
that the German Germans stick at no atrocity. 

8. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN FRYATT. 

This crime was committed in cold blood, unchecked by the 
criminal Kaiser, because on March 28, 1915, Captain Fryatt 
escaped from a German submarine by attempting to ram it. 
On June 23, 1916, he was captured, taken to Zeebrugge, and 
by a naval court martial sentenced to death. Great ''sports" 
were those German naval officers! They have in their veins 
about as much sporting blood as so many hyenas, but no more. 

On several occasions the British have actually honored the 
fine seamanship and daring and skill of German sea raiders, 
even after great destruction while at sea. But the British 
navy men are good sports, while the men of the German navy 
do not seem to recognize a bold and capable seaman when they 
see one; and they have no sense of sportsmanship. When 
did the German navy ever rescue a British or French sailor 
from drowning? But British sailors have saved many Ger- 
mans. 

The murder of Captain Fryatt brands the whole German 
navy with a mark that it will wear forever. 

9. THE GERMAN OUTRAGES UPON WOMEN. 

It is here that the pen falters, and the heart turns sick with 
horror and loathing. Thus far the newspapers of the United 
States have shrunk from printing the awful details that have 
been available on this subject. 

For fifty years we have been reading of the wars of nations, 
— white, black, red, brown and yellow, — but never in modern 
times have we seen such ghastly, such loathsome, such shock- 
ing and sickening brutalities of lust as German officers and 

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soldiers inflicted, wholesale, upon the women of Belgium and 
northern France. At present we will say little of Poland, 
for the subject is too vast. 

I shall not give instances, even though there are hundreds 
at hand, well authenticated, and undoubtedly true. But let 
all Americans remember this : Never within the last four hun- 
dreds years or more have any women ever been so brutally 
abused, so extensively raped by violence, often accompanied 
by murder in Jack the Ripper fashion, or so disgustingly mal- 
treated before the eyes of fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers 
and groups of men as were the wretched women of Belgium 
and northern France. 

The rage of the German brutes whose great conquest of 
France was balked seemed to be visited with particular fury 
and cruelty upon the women of the captured territory be- 
tween fourteen and forty years of age. I have before me one 
instance so awful and so revolting that the woman upon whom 
it was inflicted immediately went mad. The details are pub- 
lished only in French, in order that only a few English-speak- 
ing persons may read them. 

No wonder that when the armies of General Joffre and 
General Foch were chasing the German ravishers back to the 
banks of the Marne, that the French women of the recaptured 
towns and villages dragged themselves to their windows, 
leaned out, and begged the French soldiers to "Take no 
prisoners! Kill them, — all!" 

The total number of women who have been cruelly abused 
by German officers and private soldiers never will be known; 
but it must run up into hundreds of thousands. Only the 
devil himself knows how many miserables have been "given 
to the soldiers," just as was the Polish maid of an American 
lady, Madame Turczynowics, now in New York, who tells 
about it in her book, "When the Prussians Came to Poland" 
(page 138). This is the passage: 

"... we pushed our way into the room where Manya was, 
. . . what had been Manya. . . . An officer came in to ask our 
business with the girl. 

' ' She is my maid — stolen ! This is her father. I have 
come to take her home." 

' ' I am very sorry, but you are not allowed to take her. She 
belongs to the soldiers. ' ' 

"Don't you see, Herr Offizier, the girl is dying?" 

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"Ill she is, and shall have the best of care. We have a doc- 
tor to attend to just such cases." — And I had to leave her! 

10. GERMANY'S COLOSSAL CRIME IN ARMENIA. 

A little pamphlet of 24 pages, obtainable from the G. H. 
Doran Company, New York, for five cents, is quite enough to 
damn Germany, past all forgiveness, from now to the end of 
Time. It is entitled ''The Horrors of Aleppo. Seen by a 
German Eyewitness," and it is "A Word to Germany's Ac- 
credited Representatives, by Dr. Martin Niepage, Higher 
Grade Teacher in the German Technical School at Aleppo." 

The enormous extent, and the extreme savagery, of the 
slaughter of Armenian Christians by the Turkish allies of 
Germany literally stagger the imagination and sicken the 
heart. The mind can scarcely grasp the idea of men, women 
and children being massacred en masse, in 1916, literally by 
the thousand! But let me quote a few lines of strictly Ger- 
man testimony : 

Page 14. "It is utterly erroneous to think that the Turk- 
ish government will refrain of its own accord even from the 
destruction of the women and children unless the strongest 
pressure is exerted by the German government. Only just 
before I left Aleppo last May (1916) the crowds of exiles 
encamped at Ras-el-Ain on the Bagdad Railway, estimated 
at 20,000 women and children, were slaughtered to the 
last one. ' ' 

Page 11. "Many more appalling things were reported by 
the engineer of the Bagdad Railway ... or by German trav- 
elers who met the convoys of exiles on their journeys. Many 
of these gentlemen had seen such appalling sights they could 
eat nothing for days. One of them, Herr Grief, of Aleppo, 
reported corpses of violated women lying about naked in heaps 
on the railway embankment at Tel-Abiad and Ras-el-Ain. 
Another, Herr Spiecker, of Aleppo, had seen Turks tie Ar- 
menian men together, fire several volleys of small shot with 
fowling pieces into the human mass, and go off laughing while 
their victims slowly perished in frightful convulsions. 

"The German Consul from Mosul related, in my presence, 
at the German Club at Aleppo, that in many places on the 
road from Mosul to Aleppo he had seen children's hands 
hacked off in such numbers that one could have paved the 
road with them. . . . The Arabs of the village declared that 

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they had killed the Armenians by the Government's (Young 
Turks) orders." 

— And so forth, and so on, until you are sick ! 

Thus do the "Young Turks" of Turkey (on whom may all 
the curses of Allah alight) who are determined to Turkify all 
Asia Minor. Thus have 1,500,000 Christians perished, at the 
hands of Germany's ally, — an ally absolutely under German 
control, and without one protest or prohibition from the arch- 
criminals of Potsdam and Berlin. And this under "our dear, 
good, kind Emperor" William! 

The crimes of Germany were not committed by the officers 
of the Army or the Navy, or of the State, alone. They were 
perpetrated partly by the common people of Germany, as 
represented by the fathers, sons and husbands making up 
the army and the navy. The officers are not alone to blame. 
Therefore, the curses of mankind, and the punishment of the 
ages, should fall and will fall upon all the Germans of Ger- 
many, and their children unto the tenth generation. To them 
the Germans of to-day will bequeath a vast legacy of world 
scorn and world aversion. 

Americans should be the last people on earth to talk to 
outraged England, France, Russia and Servia of "magnani- 
mous" terms to Germany, and peace "without annexations or 
indemnities." Germany must Pay for her war and her 
crimes. 



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III. The Punishment of Germany. 

Without stopping to give any serious thought to the mat- 
ter, some people assert, "You cannot punish a nation." If 
not, why not ? Ask a student of history, and he will tell you, 
without hesitation, "Decidedly, yes. Ever since the days of 
Sodom and Gomorrah, countless tribes, cities, states and na- 
tions have been soundly punished for their crimes." 

To-morrow, or soon after, Germany, the arch-criminal of 
nations, will be up before the bar of Christian Civilization for 
sentence. In courts of justice it is customary to review the 
criminal record of the accused before judgment is pronounced. 
It is now a case of Germany to the bar, to face her police 
record. 

Guilty nations are no more immune from punishment for 
their crimes than are individuals guilty of high crimes. By 
their acts the German people now are heaping up dire punish- 
ment for themselves. The world is losing, with tremendous 
rapidity, its original and totally erroneous impression that 
"the German people" are innocent of the crimes that have 
been committed under the German uniform and the black- 
vulture flag. 

The mental attitude of President Wilson as it was expressed 
in his message to Congress as late as April 2, 1917, is not the 
mental attitude to-day of the American people at large. He 
said: "We have no quarrel with the German people. We have 
no feeling towards them but of sympathy and friendship. 
It was not upon their impulse that their government acted 
in entering upon this war. ' ' 

All the world outside of Germany now knows full well that 
Kaiser Wilhelm, representing the whole German people, is 
the man who started the war, who keeps it going, and who 
brought the war's consequences upon Germany. He pressed 
the button, with the united and enthusiastic approval of "the 
German people. " It is an undeniable fact that from the very 
beginning until now the people of Germany have gloried and 
exulted in the war, and steadily have acclaimed the ruthless 

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leaders who have directed it,— Wilhelm, Bissing, Hindenberg, 
Tirpitz and Zeppelin. In spite of all their losses and miseries, 
even to-day the "German people" are absolutely devoted to 
the Kaiser, and cheerfully swallow all the lies that his cabinet 
and the Reichstag hand out to them. Why should even one 
American deceive himself about the millions of Germans who 
are at heart as mean and as cruel as Tirpitz and Zeppelin? 
Remember that German women hawk and spit in the faces of 
heroes who happen to be their prisoners ! 

There is much idle talk in newspaper correspondence about 
"unrest in Germany," and a "demand for a change." All 
that empty talk is only an effort to throw dust into the eyes 
of the world, and deceive the enemies of Germany. There has 
been no change of heart at Berlin, and there never will be. 

Beyond a doubt, Arthur S. Draper is absolutely right when 
he assures us that the German people are devoted to the 
Kaiser and kaiserism, and that under no circumstances will 
Wilhelm and the Hohenzollerns be kicked off the throne. Mr. 
Draper says that even if a change is made, it will be to a 
' ' constitutional monarchy ' ' under the Kaiser ; which we know 
would be no change whatsoever ! We know what Germany 
will be like under the Chinless Hero (?) of Verdun. 

Americans must now he very careful not to fool themselves 
in measuring out sympathy for "the German people"; for 
every particle of it will be wickedly misplaced. At least let 
us not make ourselves a laughing-stock for Hans and 
Gretchen. 

With all due regard for our war President, we respectfully 
claim that in the minds of many millions of Americans both 
his premises and his conclusions are wrong. Once, — three full 
years ago, — many Americans (like ourselves) felt sympathy 
for "the German people"; but by outrage upon outrage the 
fact has been driven home to Americans that all such sym- 
pathy is utterly misplaced. The official publications of the 
war have opened our eyes. The great mass of the German 
people are guilty of an unprovoked war, and of wholesale and 
retail murder, rape, destruction and tortures unparalleled 
even among the lowest savages of modern times. 

For forty years the swell-headed pan-germanists and the 
odious Junkers deliberately have educated the German people 
into this fearful war of attempted conquest. The millions of 
Germany smilingly kow-towed to the war lords and approved 

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colossal annual expenditures in preparing for this very war! 
The man who says that the conquest of France and England 
was not ardently desired and deliberately planned by "the 
German people" is very ignorant of current history. Ex- 
cepting a few Socialists, all Germany was ready "to the last 
gaiter button" on August 1, 1914, and feverishly eager for 
the war to begin ! Was the great Kiel Canal built for com- 
mercial purposes ? Not on your life ! Every German knows 
that it was built as a means for the vanquishment of England 
on the sea; and one'German friend who claims much inside 
knowledge has solemnly assured me that Germany had long 
intended to strike France and England just as soon as the 
Canal was finished. 

Never in the history of the world was any war ever planned 
and developed through so long a period, or with such loving 
pains and thoroughness, as Germany's present war. Its con- 
struction covered thirty years, and throughout that period 
German newspapers, lectures, books and speeches were full of 
it. It was taught to the children of Germany, for at least 
twenty years. For at least ten years the officers of the Ger- 
man navy had been drinking to "Der Tag," — "The Day" 
when they would attack the British navy and crush it. 

Bismarck was a very shrewd statesman, as well as a ruthless 
conquestador and a changer of telegrams. But lie left Ger- 
many in peace and friendship with England and Russia, 
while William the Egotist, hungry to be the boss of all Europe, 
promptly estranged both. William alone created the Triple 
Entente ! 

Outside the British Army and Navy, there were practically 
no British statesmen who realized the real trend of Germany's 
ambitions. That is why the outbreak found England without 
a powerful army. 

Let no American think for a moment that the press and the 
people of Germany were ignorant of what was coming, or 
opposed to it. The whole nation, Socialists and all, had be- 
come afflicted with acute megalomania, and a real elephantiasis 
of egotism. They thought that by being sufficiently prepared, 
and sufficiently treacherous and cruel, they could bring all 
Europe under the German heel, to toil forever in the German 
yoke. To-day even the German Socialists support Kaiserism; 
and while they vociferously are shouting for "peace," re- 
member that they wish only a German-made peace that will 



leave Germany in the saddle! Let all other Socialists make 
due note of this. 

The first incident that shocked the American people into 
a realization of the true character of "the German people" 
was the sinking of the Lusitania, and the drowning of its 
great company of women, children and other non-combatants. 
And then, while England and America were laying their 
streaming dead in long rows on the dock at Queenstown, "the 
people ' ' of Germany were literally dancing with joy ! The 
German people called it a glorious ' ' victory " ! " Were some 
women and children lost? Well, they should not have sailed 
on the Lusitania. They were warned, — by the German Am- 
bassador himself ! ' ' 

And the beautiful city of Frankfort-on-the-Main gave all 
its school children A HOLIDAY, in which to indulge in unre- 
strained rejoicing over the sinking of the Lusitania! In 
Frankfort, if you were to throw a banana peel on the street, 
or in the Palm Garden, you would fiercely be arrested, and 
savagely fined 5 marks for the atrocity. 

And some of "the people" of Germany struck a joy medal 
in celebration of the Lusitania victory. A reproduction 
shows that it was a charming and soulful work of German art. 

And the submarine reptile who sank the Lusitania was 
decorated (with the " Order Pour la Merite"), and promoted, 
by the man whom young Hagenbeck of Hamburg character- 
ized as "our dear, good, kind Emperor." 

Faugh ! 

"Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, 
To sweeten mine imagination ! ' ' 

Last week it was reported by wounded British prisoners, 
exchanged and sent from Germany via Switzerland, that "as 
we lay in the train, crowded and helpless, many German 
women came up to the cars and spit upon us. ' ' I have already 
cited the story of a Canadian prisoner. 

During the past three years I have read every scrap of eye- 
witness information that has come before me in print record- 
ing observations in Germany, by war correspondents and 
others. My reading covers many newspapers, magazines, 
books and official publications of various kinds. Through all 
this mass I have looked in vain for expressions from the com- 
mon people of Germany of some disapproval of German 

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cruelties and atrocities on land or sea, or of sympathy for the 
victims of German cruelty. Find just one, if you can. I can 
not. Not once have I seen an expression or sentiment of that 
kind reported from Germany. The callousness of the women 
of Germany toward the ravishment, wounding, torture and 
ghastly mutilation of their sisters in Belgium, France, Eng- 
land, Servia, Poland and Armenia is astounding, beyond 
belief. But we are learning a lot these days. 

Germany deliberately permitted the atrocious Turks to 
murder about 1,500,000 helpless Armenians ; and so far as we 
know, not one person in Germany, high or low, has uttered 
one little protest against that colossal crime. Can you beat 
it ! As the world knows very well, Germany absolutely con- 
trols Turkey, and drove her into the war; and Germany is 
guilty of complicity in the death of every non-combatant 
Armenian of that whole two millions of helpless persons who 
were slaughtered, or drowned, or starved on the deserts. 

The ghastly murder of Edith Cavell, the nurse, and the 
Apache-like slaughter of Captain Fryatt "go" in Germany. 
The forcible abduction and enslavement of 5,000 young 
women, boys and men of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing, and all 
the younger women of Noyon, France, just before the latter 
was recaptured by the British, is all right in Germany. In 
the New York Evening World of July 27 you will find 
in an interview with Louis Raemakers, the Dutch cartoonist 
nemesis of Germany, a fearful account of what the German 
officers do with the girls of France, Belgium and Servia. 
There are photographs by the score of dead children in Servia 
"upon whom the most frightful crimes had been committed 
before they were slashed to death across the body," and 
' ' woman after woman whose breasts had been cut off. ' ' 

I believe that if the German soldiers were to kill and eat 
their prisoners, in the name of "Germany," the German 
people would accept it as justified by the "attack" on Ger- 
many, and the utterly false formula that "Germany is 
fighting for her life." 

The military ring has by hard and continuous lying made 
the German masses believe that "The Allies wish to destroy 
Germany" ; whereas the Allies wish to do nothing of the kind. 
All they wish to do is to secure the safety of the world against 
the barbarians of Berlin. 

After the war is over, will the men and women of America 

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and England and France enjoy traveling in Germany, eating 
in German hotels, promenading in the Thiergarten of Berlin, 
and fraternizing with German army officers fresh from the 
war? Can they tell the ravishers of helpless women, and the 
murderers of children and old men, from the other men of 
Germany ? No ; they can not. The trail of the serpent will 
be over them all. 

After this war how will Americans relish the sound of the 
German language, and the teaching of it in their schools? 
Will they patronize German operas as of yore? Of what 
will the strains of the "Blue Danube" waltz remind them? 

How will American men of science now regard the nation 
whose scientists invented poison gas, and sent bacteria of 
glanders and anthrax for horses and cattle, into friendly Ru- 
mania, under the privileged seal of "diplomacy"? We can 
give all the details of that episode, from official sources. 

Except by rare flashes of side light, the people of America 
have had few opportunities to learn what the Allies really 
think now of the German Germans. The catalogue of a 
dealer in second hand books ordinarily is the very last place 
in which one would look -for expressions of opinion of nations 
and people. But in war, always look for the unexpected. 
Book Catalogue No. 767, of Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 
contains this, soberly set forth on page 21 : 

Beneden (Pierre Joseph van : Univ. Lou vain, Belgium) Ani- 
mal Parasites and Messmates. 18 woodcuts, post 8vo, 2 s. 
(pub. 5 s.). 

Belgium came to know viler human parasites from German universities 
than the filthiest bloodsuckers of the insect world. 

And on page 28 this item appears: 

Hartman (Robert: Univ. Berlin) Anthropoid Apes, with 63 

woodcuts, post 8vo, el. 2 s. (pub. 5s.). 

These would suggest the University-bred German officers who defiled 
with their own filth the French houses in which they were billeted. 

We will add that they also suggest the ethics of the wol- 
verine, whose favorite habit it is systematically to defile all the 
food in a miner's cabin which he can neither eat nor carry 
away. 

All the world now knows that the Allies, of whom, thank 
God, America at last is one, never will cease fighting the mad- 
dogs, the wolves and wolverines of Germany until they are 

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thoroughly whipped. Be the time long or short, the Allies will 
outlast the Teuton and the Turk, and will dictate the terms 
that both shall accept. America is ready to throw into the 
scale one-half of all that she possesses, if need be, to secure 
that end. 

And then what ? 

When Germany is thoroughly beaten, as assuredly she will 
be, what shall be her punishment for her crimes ? 

The only sensible and correct policy to pursue toward a 
dirty-fighting enemy is to get him down and keep him down ! 
No greater mistake could be made than for the Allies to become 
"magnanimous" to brutal Germany when the time comes to 
hand her what is coming to her in final settlement. We want 
no sissies nor weak sisters representing us at the peace con- 
ference, pleading for easy terms for Germany. Any man who 
cannot guess how much Germany would be "magnanimous" 
to the Entente allies if she should win, is a colossal idiot. 
Think of the size of the cash indemnities that Germany would 
exact of America, England and France if she could win ! 

It would seem that no matter how rapacious or egotistic are 
Germany's intentions, always and everywhere there is a gar- 
rulous German ready to blab them out in public. If Germany 
had the chance, she would utterly ruin all of the Allies. There 
is no conceivable insult or injury that she would not visit upon 
them, just as she has upon the conquered districts of Belgium 
and France. The United States would be called upon to pay 
an indemnity of just about $20,000,000,000; and quickly, too! 
Make no mistake about that ! 

We have been reading German anticipations of the taking 
of British East Africa and the Congo Free State, to join them 
to the (late lamented) "German colonies" for the making of a 
vast African empire under the ' ' dear, good, kind Kaiser ' ' of 
Belgian fame. This is well known to the English; and the 
answer is that Germany's lost African colonies are already 
lost to Germany forever and a day ! To give back to Germany 
any one of those African colonies would be criminal folly, and 
of a certainty it would breed no end of future trouble in 
Africa. Knowing this, the Boers of South Africa will see 
Germany in hades before any influence on earth can persuade, 
or force them, to hand back one foot of "German" East 
Africa,— a colony that was armed to the teeth long prior to 
1914, and that started fighting immediately that war was de- 
clared in August, 1914 ! 

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Even if overweening magnanimity should beg that "Ger- 
man" Southwest Africa be given back, the dictates of hu- 
manity would sternly forbid it. After the brutal murder by 
Germany of 208 of the leading natives of the German capital 
at Walfish Bay for no reason whatever save the innate German 
brutality of the new governor, and the poisoning of the wells 
of Swakopmund, it would be a high crime against the native 
population ever again to place them within the power of any 
German governor. 

No ; decidedly not. Germany will not be given back a single 
foot of any one of her former African colonies. The close of 
this war will be no time for mushy sentiment toward the 
dirtiest fighters on earth. 

The war should not and will not end until Germany has 
surrendered every foot of invaded territory now occupied by 
the Teutonic allies, and agreed to pay to Belgium an indem- 
nity of about $5,000,000,000 with another $5,000,000,000 to 
France, or the equivalent thereof, and the return of Alsace 
and Lorraine. The delivery to England of her cowardly navy 
as a pledge of future good behavior is really immaterial. The 
German navy is chiefly a scuttling navy, great only against 
unarmed ships and fishing boats, but never willing to meet any 
foe on equal terms. 

When the peace terms are written, England should take 
back Heligoland, as a German bond to keep the peace. The 
giving away to her only enemy of that immensely valuable 
island was one of the greatest blunders in statecraft that Eng- 
land ever committed. Now, there is only one way to redeem 
it, — make Germany surrender Heligoland before any German 
ship is permitted to sail the seas. 

All the world now knows that the preservation of a Slavic 
Balkan barrier now is absolutely necessary to the peace of 
Asia. 

And what will be the attitude of Americans, English- 
men, Frenchmen, Italians and Russians after the war, toward 
the mad dogs and wolves of Germany? For the sake of "busi- 
ness" and "trade" and "cheap goods" will we fraternize once 
more with the red-handed murderers of ten thousand Belgian 
and French civilians, the ravishers and enslavers of 100,000 
Belgian and French women, the sinkers of the Liisitania, and 
the murderers of Captain Fryatt and Nurse Cavell 1 Will we 
buy goods made by blood-stained. German hands, that have 

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dragged Belgian and French girls from their screaming 
mothers? Will we buy and use goods made on stolen Belgian 
machines, of materials stolen from France ? Will we patronize 
the German "science" that produced chlorine gas for British 
soldiers, or the German artillery artists who have gleefully 
pounded the Cathedral of Rheinis into ruins? 

Will we not hear with the swan song of Lohengrin the 
dying shrieks of the Lusitania women and children as they 
struggle in the icy waters ? 

In view of the records of the past three years, what two 
words are more loathsome and detestable than "German 
kultur"? 

The only logical conclusion of Germany's career of crime 
and dirty fighting is, at the close of the war, the contempt, the 
aversion and the loathing of the civilized world, and a uni- 
versal policy of non-intercourse. Let Germany go and live 
with Austria, and the loathsome Turk, in a hell of their own. 
Can any American not of German birth ever again desire to 
visit and travel in the land of the criminal Kaiser who started 
the war, the land of the murderers, ravishers and traitors 
whom the war brought to the surface? We cannot conceive 
it possible. 

And after the war is over, the less we hear in America of 
the German language and of German literature, music, art 
and science, the better for all concerned. The German idols 
one and all lie in the mud, in fragments, — cast down and 
smashed by the mad-dogs of Germany, and no one else! 
Americans of German descent may build monuments to their 
memory, but never again can they be set up for Americans 
to worship. 

Through her crimes and her dirty fighting, Germany has 
earned the contempt and aversion of the world, and it will be 
paid to her as long as civilization endures. Whole libraries 
will be written about the brutalities of the German Germans, 
the cowardice of their navy, the blunders of their alleged 
statesmen, and the carnival of lies of the Kaiser and his 
advisors. 

Men who fight honorably take their punishment like men, 
get over it, and often become friends again. But not so when 
one party is "a dirty fighter," a gouger, and a hitter below 
the belt. Even the youngest American schoolboy despises 
the unfair fighter, and loathes the sight of him. 

After this war is over, no man outside the Teutonic-Turco 

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mad-dog influence will be so poor or so mean as to look upon 
a German German with real respect, much less with admira- 
tion. The world will cheerfully go naked and hungry ere it 
accepts food and clothes made in Germany. Americans with 
self respect will refuse to buy German goods, or to trade in 
stores that offer them for sale, — not indeed to "punish" Ger- 
many, but because the source is so loathsome and offensive. 
Germany, Austria and Turkey already have the contempt, 
the scorn and the hatred of the whole world, and after the war 
they should be ostracised and shunned for a thousand years. 

It will be only the most sordid and mean-spirited people of 
America, England and France who will again buy of Ger- 
many because her goods are cheap. It is now time publicly 
to declare in America the existing aversion to Germany, in 
order that all importers may be made to know and under- 
stand the intentions of the public, and thereby avoid loading 
their shelves with goods that they can not sell to Americans. 
Let signs go up now reading : " No German goods sold here. ' ' 

It is now time to drop the German language from every 
school in America, finally and forever. It is ludicrous folly 
to permit the language of America's only real enemy to be 
taught in our schools. Never again will Americans need it. 
We can well do without the language of brutality and 
tyranny. 

One of the few good services rendered by this German-made 
war concerns South America. It has shown Brazil, Argen- 
tina and even Mexico exactly where they stand with respect 
to the Monroe doctrine. If Germany should win this war, 
then should all the nations of South and Central America 
pray to God for deliverance ; for with Germany in the saddle, 
their peace and prosperity would be gone forever. With per- 
fect clearness of vision, Brazil now sees this, and has the in- 
domitable courage to act the part of a great and self-respect- 
ing nation, bent upon preserving the rights of her people. 

Argentina sees the light, but hesitates to take up her share 
of the white man's burden; and Chili says: "Let George 
do it!" 

If there is now even one Central or South American state 
which can not see that the United States, — with the moral 
support of the British navy, — has for years stood like a rock 
between them and the most rapacious and cruel people on 

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earth, then that state is hopelessly blind. And for this serv- 
ice the United States has not asked anything but common 
friendship, — and sometimes has failed to receive even that! 
The Central and South American republics should now set 
their houses in order in regard to their future dealings with 
the German "influence," and German commercial aggression. 
They should take warning from the condition of Italy before 
the war, when German capital and German greed held the 
banks, railroads, and sea commerce of Italy literally by the 
throat. Do Argentina, Chili, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia 
wish that condition to obtain with them ? After the war, Ger- 
many will make a tremendous push to secure commercial 
supremacy in South America ; and let South America beware ! 
The time to build dykes is before the floods come, not after. 

Saith the Psalmist with inspiration from the same God 
whom the German Kaiser piously and persistently claims as 
his silent partner, 

"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations 
that forget God." 

And to pan-Germany, Turkey and Austria we transmit that 
solemn promise of Holy Writ of what is in store for them, in 
punishment for their high crimes against humanity. 

After the war, nothing can save them from existence in a 
hell of national poverty, and world-wide scorn and aversion, 
all of their own making. 



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